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As CI5 member Raymond Doyle in The Professionals, Birmingham-born actor Martin Shaw was one of the toughest guys on TV in the late '70s.

But, after spending an evening sitting next to fellow Brummie and Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, he was keeping mum as to whether Doyle’s gun-toting, karate chopping ‘Criminal Intelligence 5’ skills would soon be transferring to the gangster world of the Shelby family during Birmingham’s inter-war years.

In an unusual move, both Knight and Shaw were each awarded a Baird Medal at the Royal Television Society Midlands Centre’s Gala & Awards Dinner 2016.

And they spent the evening sitting next to each other while dozens of shortlisted entries were broadcast on a big screen at their end of the main function room of the National Motorcycle Museum close to the NEC.

Father Brown (BBC Birmingham) - The Best Fictional Television Programme Award

Other winners on the night included ITV News Central - Best News Programme for the Leicester Champions’ Parade while BBC East Midlands Current Affairs won the Best Current Affairs Feature category for Investigating Sports Direct: An Inside Out Special.

Anita Ramdharry from Chugg Productions was named Best New Talent for her work on children’s live action series Chico Chugg, produced for TaDaKids. It is called Nico Nog in Wales where it airs on S4C.

Staffordshire University students picked up a number of awards in the student categories.

Andrew Pasquale Bell won for The Oval Portrait in the Animation category; Richard Binninton was awarded the Comedy & Entertainment prize for Searching for Signatures and Jack Kelly, Josh Clarke and Alex Daly scooped the award for Drama for Buses.

Yue Liu from University of Derby won in the Factual category with A Girls Storyand Steve George, Ryan Sibanda, Joshua LA Baggott and L.J ‘Stark’ Greenwood from University of Wolverhampton received the Short Feature prize for Si.